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APPLICATION FILED AUG.31| 1918.

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HENRY A. HAYDEN, 0F WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NOR TO HAYDEN INVENTIONS CORPORATION, OF WESTFIELI?, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BRUSH.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented A110- 12, 1919.

Application led August 31, 1918. Serial No. 252,135.

To all ywhom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HAYDEN, a citizen of the U. S., and a resideit of Westfield, Union county, New Jersey, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in brushes; the advantages of which improvements, mainly resident in an inclined reversible handleand Va plurality ofk spreadincreasing tufts auxiliary to the tufts usually present, will appear hereinafter.

The invention, especially at the present time, when broom-corn is very scarcev and thrifty householders must'pay high prices for skimpy and short-lived house-brooms, is most advantageously embodied as a substitute for such brooms. In this connection, it is admitted that many attempts have been made to devise a substitute of this kind; but it is a fact, yso far as I am aware, that none of these attempts havebeen successful in the way of providing a really workable and satisfactory broom in which, instead of the long and brittle corn lwisps, bristles of shorter and tougher character are used, such as tampico or the like, especially the former, since it is cheap, abundant, very durable, and exceedingly tenacious of the slight degree of elasticity by which it is characterize As an embodiment of the invention, then, (but one nevertheless merely illustrative, since the new brush will obviously have many other` valuable adaptations, as for a dust-lifting, paint, varnish, whitewash, billposting orother brush for floor, ceiling or wall use), the drawings show, and there will be described, a construction affording a house or ioor broom, which, despite its cheap cost and the avoidance of the use of expensive and scarce broom-corn, has been found to serve the purpose satisfactorily in practice.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the brush, showing the reversible feature of the handle in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the brush of Fig. 1, one of the parts being broken away and the bristles being indicated by dot-anddash lines;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, looking in either direction;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, showing the locking piece of Fig. l for securing the handle in either of its reversed positions on the brush-proper;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view, similar to Fig. l, showing a modication, some of the parts being broken away to aid the disclosure; Y

Fig. 6 is a section on line 66-of Fig. 5; and i Fig. 7 is a section on line 7-7 of Fig.'1.v

The construction of Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4,

shows a brush backing 8; brush bristles 9 and 10; an inclined handle 11 including a pair of pins 12 and 13; a securing means including notches in the pins as indicated, a bent metal plate 14 provided. withv al pair of pin-receiving recesses or apertures 15 overlying and taking about a cut-away part 8 of the backing, and a pivoted lockingpiece 16 on the plate 14. Felt buers 17 may or may not be provided. Y The backing 8 is preferably of wood, quite elongated, and of considerable thinness as compared with its width. The backing illustrated, minus the cut-away part 8', and carrying the bristles 9, may be the usual stock article purchasable, as was the one used for my test model, in the ten-cent stores.

Referring to the bristle structure, a feature of the invention is the combination of at least one row, as here,'of bristle tufts 9 set in sockets 8 in one ofthe long faces of the backing, with a plurality of double tufts 10 looped through transverse apertures, as those indicated at 18. This plurality of tufts 10 always includes two terminal outwardly inclined tufts as shown in Fig. 1, to provide enlarged bristle groups projecting beyond the opposite ends of the backing and prolong the bristle spread adequately to increase thel extent of sweep and interpose a resilient buffer agent to defeat marring contact of the backing and wood-work adjacent to the area worked over. The axes of the apertures 18-are at right angles -to the axes of the sockets 8". By properly positioning these apertures 18, each of the tufts, or bundles of bristles 10, after being thus looped, ma be easily and cheaply secured in the desire spread, by the use of a flexible tying agent 19, preferably a short length of picture-wire, drawn through an adjacent small transverse aperture 20, thence over the looped bristle bundle and thence over the adjacent end of the backing, there being twisted together' and tucked in between the down-turned free end lengths of the bristle bundle and under the backing as illustrated. The buffers 17 may then be tacked in place as shown.

The enlarged terminal bristle structures so provided, have also the important advantage of creating pockets at opposite ends and sides of the brush for directing and the better propelling the dust and rubbish in the field of work.

The cut-away part S is vmerely a transverse slot cut through the upper edge of the backing, of the crosssection indicated in broken lines in Fig. 1.

The metal plate 14C is tacked in placeto cover this eut-awa art 8 and to dis ose its apertures 15, which are circular and of slightly greater diameter than the pins 12 and 13, so that the pins, when set in place for the functioning of the locking piece 16, receive some support from the walls of the slot.

The locking piece 16 is pivoted in place on the plate 14, at the middle of the lockingpiece and midway between the circular pinreceiving apertures 15, so that the piece may be used indiscriminately to secure the handle and backing together, whether the handle is arranged as shown in full lines or reversed as indicated in dotted lines. The locking piece is thus pivoted by a woodscrew 21 (Fig. 3) threaded into the backing below the floor of the slot constituting here the cut-away part 8.

So that, when the backing and handle are disconnected, the brush may be conveniently hung in the closet, the backing may be provided with one or both of the transverse apertures 22.

The modication of Figs. 5 and 6 is, as will be seen, similar to that of Fig. 1, except for three minor details. First, instead of the cut-away part 8, the cut-away part includes two sockets 8a registering with the circular apertures 15 in the plate 141. Second, the plurality of auxiliary tufts 10 comprise, in addition to the terminal, outwardly inclined tufts of Fig. 1, a central vertical tuft 10, looped through a transverse aperture 1SEL and secured in place and to hold a suitable flare, by means of a tying element 19 passed through two small apertures 20a. Third, only one of the pins 12 and 13 is notched, and a locking piece 16a is substi- -tuted for the piece 16 of Fig. 1. This locking-piece has only one end functioning as a detent, theg-,other end of the piece being bent over and up as shown to furnish a convenient thumb-plate 16a. rllhe wood-screw by which this locking-piece is pivotally mounted is threaded into the wooden backing olirectly under the plate 14, between the-sockets 8a.

The pins 12 and 13 are here the terminal lengths of a single looped wire member 23 (Figs. 1 and 7 the bight of the loop being seated in a transverse slot 11L cut across an end of the handle 11, a ferrule 24 and the member 23 beinganchored in place bya rivet 25 and tack 26 as shown.

I claim: y

In a brush, in combination, an elongated backing having a line of sockets formed in one of its long faces with substantially parallelaxes, bristle tufts secured in said sockets, the backing also having transverse apertures cut therethrough near the ends of such line wit-h their axes substantially at right angles to the axes of the sockets, and bristle tufts drawn through said apertures and looped and secured in place, with their opposite terminal portions projecting away from said apertures and inclined away from the bristles in the bottom sockets -to prolong the bristle-spread beyond the ends of the backing.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name on the 27th day of August, 1918.

HENRY A, HAYDEN. [Le] Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,V

Washington, D. C. l 

